Connected Cultures

When I booked tickets for Hamlet at the Hackney Empire I was expecting the play to fall somewhere within the Conjectured Cultures brief,...

Review: RSC at The Hackney Empire 2018 is proving to be a year of exceptionally high drama. I am revelling in this theatrically. And I'm...

Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian. How can you possibly have so much fun on stage when you are playing such a tragic role? And yet, as King Lear,...

Part two of my 2018 Shakespeare Slam – the Tragedies, and I’m at the Duke of York's Theatre to see Sir Ian McKellen playing the most...

The many Duchesses of Malfi The Duchess of Malfi is “the archetypal ‘Jacobean’ play – dark, sensuous, violent and fascinated with...

Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, 2nd June 2018 At the end of the matinee performance the ushers called for a quick exit so the...

In profile In mid-May, to launch her book The Girl Who Smiled Beads in the UK, Clemantine was at Foyles in Charing Cross Road, an...

by Clemantine Wamariya Review As well as being an inspirational speaker and humanitarian, Clemantine Wamariya is a born storyteller. A...

Connections and Opportunities Introduction “Ballet Black is Britain’s most diverse and daring ballet company. Not only do they open up...

Review The Suit and A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream The Barbican, Friday 16th March 2018 "The course of true love never did run...

Connected Cultures invited guest contributor Eric Stevens to delve into the history of the Black Panther character, placing him firmly in...

Nakia - Undercover Spy 1. On Wakanda: “Wakanda is secretive, isolated, kept to itself.” “It’s uncolonised, so it’s advanced in a way its...

Essentially, Black Panther is a Marvel superhero film, and one of the best. But it transcends genre. It’s a fantasy adventure. A sci-fi...

Introduction January at the Meliá White House Hotel. Is it really a year since the last Art Rooms in London? And could the 2018...

Early Shakes Chancing his arm with a tragi-comedy, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus early in his career after initially coming up with...

Review Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Barbican – Friday 5th January 2018 What is this play? A tragi-comedy, a horrific farce, a...

Books lined up so far for 2018: 01. The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil 02. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo...

Introduction With the exception of one book on the following list, these books were either longlisted or shortlisted for the Man Booker...

Introduction I have been blessed with some fine books in 2017. Not all of them were published this year. I tend to store up some reading...

You think you know someone. Think you’ve known him your whole life. And then, one day, you find out something about him that you had...